The Hard Stuff

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The hotly anticipated sequel to David Gordon's The Bouncer. For readers who like high-calibre humour mixed with their hard crime, here's a brilliant, pyrotechnic thriller from a fresh virtuoso of the crime caper genre. Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: he's the 'sheriff' for an alliance of New York City's mob bosses. In the straight world, you call the cops in the underworld, you call Joe. He's detoxing too much of the hard stuff at the clinic of a Chinese herbalist when the call comes in: the bosses need Joe to help them with ironically a high-end heroin problem. A new drug dealer is in town and the bosses think they might be an Al Quaeda splinter group, trading dope for diamonds to fund a major-league terrorist atrocity. And that would just be bad for business. Joe has a plan. He's a man who knows how to take down a terrorist cell. But first he needs a hit of the hard stuff diamonds, this time and lots of them... Praise for The Bouncer: 'Clever plotting and a light-hearted tone add charm to this lively caper despite its multiple violent deaths... Lots of fun' SUNDAY TIMES 'The Bouncer will toss you over his shoulder like King Kong and carry you away' MAX ALLAN COLLINS 'David Gordon brings an outstanding new voice to the contemporary crime novel' ROBERT CRAIS

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The action pops and crackles and the dialogue particularly amongst the various gangsters positively zings. The Hard Stuff is a fast and furious crime caper which reminded me of the crime novels of one of my favourite American writers of about twenty years ago, Doug J. Swanson * Shots Magazine *
A caper of confusing, twisting storylines... Like his literary contemporary James Paterson, the action comes thick and fast... Unlike Paterson we are firmly sided with the bad guys' * News Letter *
There are twists and turns... The action comes thick and fast in short chapters that add to the pace of the book' * Scotsman *
This series is as good as any in the heist genre: the complex planning, the detail in execution and the unexpected twists and turns as things roll out are a joy to read * Crime Review *

Author Bio

David Gordon holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books.